Hillary Clinton: Why Yes, I’m A One-Percenter And It Will Cost You $353,400 To Sit By Me, But Hey, The Champion Of Everyday Americans Is Worth It!
[guest post by Dana]
There is but one Hillary Clinton. Thankfully. Infamous member of the one-percent club thanks to her golden ties to Wall Street, including Goldman Sach, and who amusingly opened her presidential campaign (the current one, that is…) with this announcement:
I’m running for president. Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.
It’s an eye-roller given that she is scheduled to be the guest of honor at a fundraiser where the odds of seeing any of those “everyday Americans” is slim to none unless they’re wearing a uniform and asking guests if they’d like more champagne:
One-percenters of a feather stick together:
For two seats at the head table with Clinton, George Clooney and his wife, attorney Amal Clooney, at an April 15 fundraiser, a couple must contribute or raise a whopping $353,400 — a huge ticket price for a hard-dollar fundraiser.
And say, do you think that April 15 fundraiser date is a little inside joke of the one-percent??
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (0ee61a) — 3/26/2016 @ 10:52 amgeorge and amal clooney are low-rent cheese-buckets
she must’ve been turned down by the a-listers
happyfeet (831175) — 3/26/2016 @ 10:55 amWas there an earlier one for April 1st?
felipe (56556d) — 3/26/2016 @ 11:04 amthe odds of seeing any of those “everyday Americans” is slim to none unless they’re wearing a uniform and asking guests if they’d like more champagne:
What’s infuriating about people like her is they have the ability to easily, conveniently vote with their feet and the moving van. To glide comfortably through life while both incubating and also avoiding (on a daily basis—Hillary, for example, resides in a cushy, leafy, generally segregated suburb of New York City) the type of socio-political-economic messes symbolized by this:
(Incidentally, the Nidal-Hasan-ized US military is probably a bit — just a bit — less liberal or politically correct than a school district in blue-state Minnesota.)
Mark (23b32d) — 3/26/2016 @ 11:14 am“The party of the People”, it says on the label. Huh.
Eat your Mac & Cheese, slaves.
mojo (a3d457) — 3/26/2016 @ 11:36 amis weird how you’re not allowed to co-host or event chair unless you’re a couple
she may be a whore, but she’s oddly selective
happyfeet (831175) — 3/26/2016 @ 11:40 amThe period (“.”) in the title had me thinking this was an event for the “little people”. But the comma (“,”) in the article set me straight.
This is like the practices of the Catholic Church that got Martin Luther upset. Blood money to expiate a life of sins, so to speak. In this case, it is the mythical “carbon footprint” that is probably of most concern. And an occasional islamophobic thought as the next slaughter catches them by surprise. Before they realize that it is just the little people, who don’t have their own Gulf Stream and armed guards, who are threatened by the violence.
BobStewartatHome (a52abe) — 3/26/2016 @ 11:50 amHollywood phonies, and the political elite
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/26/2016 @ 12:07 pmAnd the people who watch or vote for them
In every house and on every street
And if fondest wishes were to come true
They’d be buried under tons of concrete
“At the home of Shervin Pishevar” in San Francisco. “An entrepreneur, super angel and venture capitalist of Iranian decent” An early investor in Uber and on the board of Hyperloop. A big time bundler for Obama and Cory Booker in Jersey (cause Jersey ain’t corrupt enough) now bundling for Hillary! (cause Washington ain’t corrupt enough). He believes in a “collaborative approach” between Silicon Valley and Washington, DC (what could possibly go wrong there?). Won an award for Outstanding American for his support of expanded immigration for high-skilled migrants and supports startup visa (you know, the jobs Americans won’t do).
Obviously the Ideal American of the Future and just the sort to “choose” our next resident, after all he did pick the last. Allahu Akbar!
Rev. Hoagie ™ (e4fcd6) — 3/26/2016 @ 12:11 pmi support expanded immigration for high-skilled migrants
we get way too many poopers
happyfeet (831175) — 3/26/2016 @ 12:12 pmcruz has a tranny girl friend.
cruz is a pervert (11cc10) — 3/26/2016 @ 12:38 pmWe know Hillary! is to the bone ugly but stop calling her a tranny.
Rev. Hoagie ™ (e4fcd6) — 3/26/2016 @ 12:40 pmHoagie, I hope you are feeling better. You are in the prayers of me and my family.
Simon Jester (2708f4) — 3/26/2016 @ 12:55 pmThanks for that reminder, Simon.
perhaps a silly question, when a fund raiser like this is held, where does the money go, to the DNC?
As I understand it, those amounts are far beyond what a person is allowed to contribute to an individual candidate.
What is the rationale for allowing someone to give that much money to the DNC, which turns around and uses it for their presidential candidate, instead of giving it to the individual directly?
MD in Philly (at the moment not in Philly) (c13fa2) — 3/26/2016 @ 1:22 pmAm I missing something, or is this just gamesmanship that is supposed to look like making things fair when they are anything but?
Where do you think the money goes, MD in Philly? Hillary! made $186,600 as SecState but has a personal net worth of $30 million (beside the $110 million net worth of her unemployed, disbarred husband). With the moral turpitude Hillary! has displayed her entire wretched life where do you think the money goes?
I feel as good as I can Simon Jester, it’s the nature of the thing. It’s like trying to breathe through a straw. And someone’s pinching the straw. But thanks for the prayers, they help. I wish all you guys and your families a very Happy Easter. I even have my Buddhist wife doing an egg hunt. And now she just loves Peeps.
Rev. Hoagie ™ (e4fcd6) — 3/26/2016 @ 1:38 pmI fixed the amount in the title.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 3/26/2016 @ 1:39 pmI’m sure they can have a good conversation on income inequality and how the rich own everything.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/26/2016 @ 1:39 pmBe funny if Bernie and his wife bought the tickets with campaign funds, and secretly recorded the conversation.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/26/2016 @ 1:41 pmThanks, Patrick. Dyslexia strikes. I’m usually more careful as a result.
Dana (37f695) — 3/26/2016 @ 1:48 pmFriends with pull pay some dues.
gbear (35fafe) — 3/26/2016 @ 2:47 pmSo….they can only donate co much to her campaign,
But they can give her as a person as much as they want for a “talk” over dinner????
Why would anyone be limited in how much they can give, then????
MD not exactly in Philly (64f9f9) — 3/26/2016 @ 3:58 pmO/T Brendan Eich’s revenge. He has a new browser out called Brave. I’m using it now.
https://www.brave.com/
It’s a beta versoon so it doesn’t have quite the same functionality as you would expect in a full-up commercially available browser but it has two advantages.
1. Pages download really do load a lot faster because it blocks the adware. It lives up to its advertising in that regard. It’s lightning fast compared to every other browser I’ve tried.
2. It’s a another nail in the coffin of those fascists at Mozilla.
I just thouht that if people were still interested in sending a message to the fascists who gave us Firefox, you no longer have to use a mere alternative. You can use a browser produced by the guy they fired merely for participating in the political process. You can now support Brendan Eich directly, and not merely withdraw your support from Mozilla.
That is all. Carry out the plan of the day.
Steve57 (08b8c6) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:13 pmYa got me, MD in Philly. All I know is there are pages and pages of “rules” and all these politicians go in broke, come out millionaires, build “libraries” (like anybody needs a friggin’ library) and move to Martha’s Vineyard or some such elitist retreat to write the memoirs no one will read yet be #1 on the NYT best seller list for three months. So obviously whatever the BS McCain-Feingold Act (just the name screams bu!!sh!) which the Washington Post calls a “devastating legacy” does little to nothing about where the money goes. And when Clinton/Gore were getting Chinese money from Buddhist temples nobody went to jail so I guess even foreign money is in play.
Rev. Hoagie ™ (e4fcd6) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:13 pmWhy do you think Obama opened up Cuba before and election? For the people? The dissidents? No, for the big donors and labor unions to go in and “Make Cuba Great Again”. That’s what the democrats will be doing while Trump is Making America Great Again. See? In four years we’ll all be great again!
Why did Souza get in trouble breaking the law by donating too much money to somebody through reimbursing a third party for their contribution?
MD not exactly in Philly (64f9f9) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:20 pmD’Souza, my bad.
MD not exactly in Philly (64f9f9) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:21 pmSOS will be served all night!!
mg (31009b) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:23 pminstalling brave now
happyfeet (831175) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:24 pmis fast but yeah i need more functions
happyfeet (831175) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:26 pmWe’ve talked about this before, MD. It’s divided up among many entities, with attention to how much any one one donor can give to any one entity:
The Hillary Victory Fund is a joint fundraising committee for Hillary for America, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic committees of 32 states and Puerto Rico.
….
Here’s how it works:
Donors who are rich — and willing — can give $5,400 to the Clinton campaign, $33,400 to the Democratic National Committee and $10,000 to each of the state parties, about $360,000 in all. A joint fundraising committee lets the donor do it all with a single check.
On Jan. 1, the contribution limits reset for the party committees, and the Hillary Victory Fund can go back to its donors for another $350,000 in party funds.
All told, a single donor can give more than $700,000 for the election.
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/23/460762853/how-hillary-clinton-could-ask-a-single-donor-for-over-700-000
nk (dbc370) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:29 pmThere you go, MD. nk laid it all out for us. Did it sound like blah, blah, blah…blah, blah to you? Cause it sure did to me. IOW if you’re rich you can give three quarters of a million, and so can your wife, and each child and each pet. And since the Republicans are the party of the rich the democrats will raise over a billion bucks this cycle. That’s before they buy the obligatory “carbon credits”, donate to the prescribed “charity” or make speech#1. And considering all their advertising is gratis by the radical left news media, TV and movies and all their voters are shipped from polling place to polling place by ACORN, CAIR and the SEIU all that money is for “miscellaneous” expenses. You know, campaign buttons and lawn signs.
Rev. Hoagie ™ (e4fcd6) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:45 pmI doubt they will be serving this at Clintons clambake.
mg (31009b) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:52 pmhttp://generalshotsauce.com/pages/flavors
there’s also don corzione@ballard, who made a billion dollars dissapear with mf global, yet was a bundler in good standing,
narciso (732bc0) — 3/26/2016 @ 4:56 pmyou need to try the hot sauce, happyfeet.
mg (31009b) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:04 pmThe grenade bottles are genius, and the marine green is pretty darned tasty.
Just download it and keep checking for updates. I made sure to download the prerequisite tools for beta testing. Node.js 5+, Python 2.7, and Visual Studio 2015. I have no idea how to use these tools, but I used to do testing and training for a defense contractor that produced hardware and software for an unspecified government agency. And I used different tools. So I know I can learn. I’ll take on the project.
Nobody said fighting the fascism was going to be cheap, fast, or easy, did they?
Steve57 (08b8c6) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:07 pmThanks, nk.
So, if you want to give a lot of money to an individual candidate who may not be the favorite of the state party and the national party, that is where the temptation comes in to give money through a third party.
So, Rev., technically your pet can not give extra…unless you fail to reimburse it and make it pay out of its own trust fund…
MD in Philly (at the moment not in Philly) (a8334e) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:09 pmBut then in addition, nk, the way they get personally rich is not through pocketing campaign contributions, but when the fans not only max out campaign contributions (which does help pay for a lot of nice meals and hotel stays, I imagine) but pay for talks and such at $350,000 an hour,
MD in Philly (at the moment not in Philly) (a8334e) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:12 pmright.
yes i got it
but you can’t “save as text”
that’s kinda basic
happyfeet (831175) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:13 pmnot that even more established browsers are any good at it, but firefox is the best at it
happyfeet (831175) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:13 pmThere were no federal campaign contribution limits at all before 1974. (Can you say “Watergate”?) And the courts keep striking them down in cases like Buckley v. Valeo, McConnell v. FEC, Citizens United, and McCutcheon, all lawsuits by Republicans. But don’t let me deprive you of your grievance with an explanation of the current state of the law.
nk (dbc370) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:17 pmThat was for Hoagie, MD. I hadn’t seen your comments before I posted.
nk (dbc370) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:18 pmone thinks of that old knight rider tv show, going after ‘criminals that operate above the law’
narciso (732bc0) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:20 pmSuper-PACS, MD. You find “independent” super-PACS that support your person or dislike his opponent. Or create your own. I can spend a million trillion gazillion simoleons on a” Cruz Rules, Trump Drools” ad campaign as long as I don’t coordinate with Cruz. That was part of Buckley v. Valeo, I think.
Politicians used to be able to pocket campaign contributions as long as they declared it as income and paid the tax on it. Chicago Mayor Byrne left office with $11 million; Harold Washington left $13 million when he died. But I don’t think they could get away with it now. George Ryan went to prison over the shakedown of $60.00(sic) contributions.
nk (dbc370) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:27 pmno that was citizens united, who was the leading beneficiary, three guesses and the first two don’t count, abrams, maher, freeman, were all a party to it,
narciso (732bc0) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:31 pmCitizens United was a great First Amendment victory, but it applied to corporations not individuals. (Hillary getting shlonged was a fringe benefit.) As we’ve discussed elsewhere, limited liability entities are indispensable in our regulation-ridden, litigation-plagued society.
nk (dbc370) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:50 pmAmal Clooney-NOT HOT. But for a…well….Clooney has a lot of Randolph Scoot/Rock Hudson/Cary Grant type manliness in him. Often.
Bugg (3ae93d) — 3/26/2016 @ 5:54 pmO/T again. How long, spokanebob, Leviticus, liberals et al, will you confine us by your craven fears?
http://www.dw.com/en/brussels-march-against-fear-cancelled-over-security-concerns/a-19144300?maca=en-TWITTER-EN-2004-xml-mrss
Got that? The Brussels March Against Fear is cancelled due to…
Fear.
This is typical in the opposite land you’d you’d have us ilve. The government officials, and you, who would accuse me of being afraid because I’m willing to name my enemies and confront my assailaints are in fact too afreid to do anything that might get them hurt.
So the “March Against Fear” is cancelled out of fear.
The world you would have, Leviticus, spokanebob, et al, isn’t even safe for your ineffectual tearful candle light vigils or a walk around town. Yet you not dare say why.
The world you would have convinces our Islamic enemies we are ripe for the taking. It’s you who should be ashamed for lying on behalf of them. Not me; I speak the truth despite of and laugh at your impotency.
Steve57 (08b8c6) — 3/26/2016 @ 6:25 pmSteve57, once upon a time the reason for cancelling Sunday’s “March against Fear” in Brussels would be because the organizers suddenly realized it was Easter Sunday, when Belgians and other Europeans should be spending time with their families. But in modern secular post-Christian Europe, Easter is just another Sunday for soccer matches and street theater.
JVW (9e3c77) — 3/26/2016 @ 6:31 pmdan simmon’s cautionary missive starts sounding less so,
http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/03/25/10-years-ago-this-undercover-reporter-warned-of-radicalization-in-molenbeek/
the past isn’t past, it’s tomorrow,
narciso (732bc0) — 3/26/2016 @ 6:33 pmhttp://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2016/02/fullbore-friday_12.html
Point is, we can’t not fight. And we’re not facing anything like the odds CAPT Kennedy and the Rawalpindi faced. Contra the leftist anit-American Americans crushing these people will not counterintuitavely become a recruiting tool. No, annihilating the people who offer up sex slavery and war booty as recruiting tools will severely hamper the attraction to follow their example for generations.
And I’m available to be recalled,should anyone get serious about this. I only retired after 20 years in harness in 2008. There’s no need to send children to do this job.
Steve57 (08b8c6) — 3/26/2016 @ 6:53 pmThis could have been a good thread. Too bad.
nk (dbc370) — 3/26/2016 @ 6:59 pmI’m not aggrieved with your explanation of current law, nk. I’m sure you did a bang up job. But I’m not a lawyer and when I hear lawyers start with that blah-blah-blah I instinctively know I’m being BS’d and pucker up for the upcoming screwing. I just find it interesting that there are all these laws yet after the elections, win, lose or draw the money goes Poof! and they start all over again. I’m not accusing any of them of stealing the money (yes I am), nor inappropriate use of it (sure am) nor malfeasance (yup) or pulling the wool over the public eye and getting away with it because they all do it from the lawyers to the judges to the lobbyists to the unions to the corporations to the politicians. What are we gonna do put everybody in jail except the moslems and Planned Parenthood?
Rev. Hoagie ™ (e4fcd6) — 3/26/2016 @ 7:02 pmit’s a travismockasham
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/10/hillary-clinton-foundation-donors-hsbc-swiss-bank
narciso (732bc0) — 3/26/2016 @ 7:04 pmCampaign finance restrictions are 1) Democrat-inspired, 2) incumbent-protective and 3) anti-First Amendment freedom of political speech. They did not exist before 1974, there is no good reason for them to exist now, and there are very good reasons for them not to exist at all. So I don’t begrudge the Clooneys anymore than I begrudge the Kochs. I consider them both exercising their Constitutionally-protected rights to engage in the political process as much as the guy putting up a “Vote for” sign on his lawn.
nk (dbc370) — 3/26/2016 @ 7:11 pmwhy the hashtag, seemed particularly ridiculous,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122973023139522863
narciso (732bc0) — 3/26/2016 @ 7:11 pmSorry to nk@48 and everyone else for hijacking the thread.
It just burns me, current events.
Steve57 (08b8c6) — 3/26/2016 @ 7:13 pmyou could go down the list, the looting of haiti, the russian uranium heist, that required the cooperation of the entire foreign influence board, these are the same people who hounded nixon for 20 years about the hughes loan,
narciso (732bc0) — 3/26/2016 @ 7:17 pmIf you’re talking to me, narciso, yes I could. I’m reminded though of a recent discussition in which the Old Testament God was accused of being cruel. Far from being cruel, he had simply reached his limit and said so.
Steve57 (08b8c6) — 3/26/2016 @ 7:22 pmI was referring to how this looting party, by red queen, and her westeros band, has real life consequences, I didn’t know that aspect of the battle,
narciso (732bc0) — 3/26/2016 @ 7:26 pmThe core of the democrts is the ‘gimmedat’. Only a shooting episode is going to deal with that.
dee (00fef6) — 3/26/2016 @ 7:46 pmSanders had a good night, perhaps the anti Clinton voters will show up.
mg (31009b) — 3/27/2016 @ 3:15 amThink Sanders and his voters are going to make quite the mess at the Dem convention when the recognize Clinton’s superdelegates are stealing their guy’s nomination. Don’t agree with Sanders about anything, but to his credit he is honest about what he is, a complete socialist. There is a constituency for free stuff without considering who pays for it. It’s how you get $19 trillion in the hole.
Couldn’t trust the pantsuited liar any further than you could throw her. Further out of all the candidates of either party, she is the toughest listen. 4 years of that?
If anyone has a clue how this will all end on both sides…
Bugg (3ae93d) — 3/27/2016 @ 7:57 amGood article from The Guardian, narciso. I love the lead-I:
Rev. Hoagie ™ (e4fcd6) — 3/27/2016 @ 8:19 am